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Volume 1 Number 8


Winter/Spring 2018


AARP president-elect headlines Tuskegee’s nursing symposium


Chicken soup may be a common


remedy for the cold or flu, but at its upcoming annual spring symposium on April 20, Tuskegee University’s School of Nursing and Allied Health suggests treating the mind, body and spirit requires a healthy dose of soul food.


The school’s spring symposium, themed “Providing Health-Promot- ing ‘Soul Food’ for the Whole Person across the Lifespan:


Mind, Body


and Spirit,” is scheduled for Friday, April 20, on the university campus. Combined, the 31st annual Dr. Mary Starke Harper Lecturer


Series and


34th annual Scholar Events Research Symposium will offer continuing education credits for currently licensed nurses, and is open to all nursing and health-care


professionals,


Providing the symposium keynote as the Dr. Mary Starke Harper lecturer will be Dr. Catherine Alicia Georges, president-elect


of


AARP. In addition to helping lead this nonprofit membership and advocacy organization of more than 38 million members ages 50 and older, she is a nursing professional and educator herself. She will speak to symposium attendees about the social, physical and cultural influences that promote good health for all.


Georges’


“Having someone of Dr. caliber only underscores


clinicians,


students, faculty, school alumni and community members. It will showcase student and faculty scholarship through poster sessions and presentations that highlight contemporary nursing and allied health topics.


our symposium’s focus on providing nursing professionals, students and faculty with information vital to the nursing practice,” said Dr. Constance Hendricks, dean of Tuskegee’s School of Nursing and Allied Health.


In addition to her role as AARP’s incoming president, Georges serves as a professor and chair of the Department of Nursing at Lehman TUSKEGEE NURSING PAGE 11


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